By one estimate, 210 satellites weighing less than 110 pounds will be … “There is strong confidence in the aerospace community that small satellites are … Around the same time, Branson announced an investment in the OneWeb …
… scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human-made sources of …
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Tyvak International SRL – an originator of nanosatellite technology – to demonstrate the feasibility of …
NOAA chose radio occultation (RO) data as the test project for the pilot program. NOAA has a cooperative program with Taiwan and the U.S. Air Force …
James Hansen, a NASA scientist, estimated in March that seas could rise by seven meters in the coming century, a figure that would likely decimate …
When someone wants to launch a smaller satellite into orbit, or cannot … investment as part of a plan to put 4,000 small communications satellites in …
NASA has created an “Images of Change” gallery featuring photo of different … Some of these effects are related to climate change, others document …
Decision-makers in Washington have recently been faced with a dilemma. Our fast changing climate and development around the world have created increasing demand for high-quality weather and climate data. Unfortunately, at the same time, traditional weather satellites have become more expensive. Luckily, the small satellite revolution has offered an answer–constellations of small satellites, cooperating to […]
In a novel application of space-based atmospheric measurements, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), leading advisors on weather and climate risk to large enterprises, in collaboration with GeoOptics, has investigated the use of radio occultation measurements to improve severe weather forecasting. Pairing state-of-the-art, high-fidelity weather models with the rapidly evolving technology of miniaturized satellites provides a […]